Indopedia All Things Marijuana
Colorado’s Grow-Off is like Iron Chef for marijuana, a competition to find out whose prowess reigns supreme under controlled conditions. Instead of receiving the same theme ingredient (i.e. pork), 40+ growers throughout Colorado received an identical clone of a mystery cannabis strain.
Without knowing the strain’s genetics, each of these growers spent six months nursing their clone from veg to flower to harvest. The harvest date was at the growers’ discretion, and varied from grow to grow depending on when the plant went into bloom. Once harvested, entries were submitted for judging on three factors: yield (weight in grams), potency (THC %) and flavor (Terpene %).
The competition organizers submitted each cultivator’s finished product to a cannabis laboratory for testing to discover the test plant’s THC and terpene percentages.
After the lab results were tallied, the competition’s winner in both the potency and flavor categories was The Herbal Cure, a Southwest Denver dispensary. Here is what their finished product look like:
The yield category was won by High Country Healing with just over 3.5 pounds of cannabis. Another notable entry was The Clinic…
